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Line 10: ==Commemoration== After his death, his daughters established the ''Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer Memorial Foundation'' with the [[Anti-Defamation League]]. <ref>[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=981987&contrassID=2&subContrassID=16 Klinghoffer daughters recall personal tragedy at commemoration of terror victims outside Israel - Haaretz - Israel News<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>The foundation combats terrorism through educational, political and legal means. The foundation is funded by ~~anundisclosed~~an undisclosed settlement paid by the PLO to the Klinghoffers to settle a lawsuit seeking damages for the PLO's role in the hijacking (Klinghoffer v. PLO, 739 F. Supp. 854 (S.D.N.Y. 1990) and Klinghoffer v. PLO, 937 F.2d 44, 50 (2d Cir. 1991)). This lawsuit spurred passage of the [[Antiterrorism Act of 1990]] which made it easier for victims of terrorism to sue terrorists and collect civil damages for losses incurred. The hijacking was made into a [[television movie]] in 1990, ''Voyage of Terror – The Achille Lauro Affair'' starring [[Burt Lancaster]] and [[Eve Marie Saint]].

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